Court Reporting: Your Choice 4 The Future

Court Reporting:  Your Choice 4 The Future is the title in this week’s blog. There are different types of court reporters. There are freelance court reporters, who work for the hiring attorney and not for the court itself. Then there are the traditional court reporters that most people think of when they hear the term court reporter. They usually are off to the side in the courtroom taking down verbatim records of legal proceedings on a stenotype machine.

In this blog, we will list why we believe there is a strong future in the field of court reporting.

Lower cost of tuition

According to the College Boards Trends in Higher Education, the average cost of a two-year degree in district college is 3,520 compared to a four-year in-state college at 9,650. So for a basic associate degree, it costs 3,000 less per year than the traditional four-year degree.

Less time in school

The required time for court reporting and stenography typically takes two years to complete an associate’s degree or culminate in a certificate depending on the program. Generally, students of court reporting can look forward to joining their workforce in as little as the estimated two years it takes to earn the degree. One way to look at it is the less time spent in school the smaller the amount of debt accrued and the sooner you can be on the job.

Greater earning potential

According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics,  Court Reporters should expect to earn a median wage of up to 49,500 starting out, whereas freelance court reporters can often make much more due to their ability to charge a per-page price to their hiring attorneys. It is also said that very few four-year degree recipients can expect to enter the workforce at such a high salary.

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